JF Ptak Science Books: Great Opening Lines of Fiction in Punch Card Form

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Great Opening Lines of Fiction in Punch Card Form

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Happily (!) featured today (14 July) on the blog of the

H.A. Rey, Curious George.

Isn't this great? I bumped into a wonderful site called kloth.net (http://www.kloth.net/services/cardpunch.php) that provides a free-to-all and unrestricted use of their punch card emulator. It was found while looking for dating ideas for an IBM 5081 card that I have that has programming information for the BINAC computer (ca. late 1940's), and kloth.net had info on the history of IBM cards as well as the emulator--plus other stuff. Completely distracted from the BINAC quest, I created some cards using some great first lines of literature. You can play too!